Frequently Asked Questions

"What about aliases for commands?"

You can use aliases for each command. Here is an example:

Normal way:

$ wireshell field:create {name}

Using an alias, you can skip everything behind the first letter if this is enough to identify the desired command.

$ wireshell f:cr {name}

You can't use $ wireshell f:c for this command, because it's ambiguous (field:create, field:clone). This will lead to an exception.

$ wireshell f:c {name}

 [InvalidArgumentException]
 Command "f:c" is ambiguous (field:create, field:clone).

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"I use MAMP PRO for Mac and get the error message 'Error: Exception: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002]...'"

You got two possibilities here:

1. Allow network access to MAMP's MySQL: In MAMP 3's main window, go to the "MySQL" tab, and activate "Allow network access to MySQL" > From this computer. From then on you can swap localhost with 127 .0.0.1 in your local PW installations and wireshell will work.
2. Solve it by changing to MAMP's mysql.sock.

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"I'm on Windows and either can not or wish not to put wireshell in my path, or have several PHP versions installed"

Instead of adding something to the path simply create a single wireshell.bat file and put it into your already existing system path.

Read more at this ProcessWire forum post where Horst explains his solution in detail.

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